Discuss Skyrim

[vierasniper]

That's about there, my biggest problem area is markarth understone keep. though there are a couple of other places I can;t go now as well. Supposedly gets worse the longer you go on.

I'm hoping that once the construction set is released that someone can built a garbage cleaner for the save files since they use the same format as the game database. (There are MANY examples but one such type of bloating garbage is that enemy dropped weapons /never/ clean up. Also Ash piles never cleanup. Nirnroot glows multiply on every cell load and never clean up etc...)

I'm betting that'll probably happen before an official patch that fixes the garbage collection "in world".

some people on the steam forums report having 300+ hours and large save files, and they haven't experienced anything. where did you read that enemy weapons don't ''clean up''?

 

[Alsisgevat]

I geuss i just got lucky, cause saves at 19mb still work great, and no errors, but strangely i did get a ctd now and again when i tried entering windhelm, but that stoped, don't know why or for what reason.

 

[sygnus21]

cause saves at 19mb still work great.

What level are you, and how long have you been playing?

 

[fseal]

And have you /tried/ to get into understone keep lately?

Mainly I've been reading the bethsoft forums.

The game is still playable overall, in fact if you didn;t try to get into one of the problem areas you wouldn't notice it at all. I did a 90 minute daedric quest last night. There are just certain places that you can never get back into and in my case one of these places stops the theives guild quest line dead.

Actual hours of game play don't have anything to do with it really it's the save game size. Some people get the problem starting around 18 meg like I did and others it doesn't start till over 20...

 

[Alsisgevat]

@ Sygnus lvl 50, and around 200 hours. finished game so i stopped playing.

@ fseal , maybe it will start for me at 20mb...? but i restarted a new character, so i dont play on that save any more.

 

[BugMeister]

cause saves at 19mb still work great.

What level are you, and how long have you been playing?

found this at Tweakguides:
Difficulty: There are five difficulty levels in Skyrim. In order from lowest to highest, these are: Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Expert, and Master. The higher the level of difficulty, the harder combat will be in terms of enemies requiring greater damage to kill. However, unlike Oblivion, enemies in the Skyrim game world will not automatically scale to match your current level; you will frequently encounter much weaker and much more powerful enemies as you play. Furthermore, the difficulty setting can be changed at any time and will come into effect immediately, so adjust as required.

I don't know, but starting at the highest level might be a different experience..

I'm on easy mode!!

 

[Everlong]

cause saves at 19mb still work great.

What level are you, and how long have you been playing?

found this at Tweakguides:
Difficulty: There are five difficulty levels in Skyrim. In order from lowest to highest, these are: Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Expert, and Master. The higher the level of difficulty, the harder combat will be in terms of enemies requiring greater damage to kill. However, unlike Oblivion, enemies in the Skyrim game world will not automatically scale to match your current level; you will frequently encounter much weaker and much more powerful enemies as you play. Furthermore, the difficulty setting can be changed at any time and will come into effect immediately, so adjust as required.

I don't know, but starting at the highest level might be a different experience..

I'm on easy mode!!

Think I started on Expert. I couldn't get past the first dragon outside Whiterun, lol.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Started on Expert and finished on expert.......but died 1000's of times lol

 

[fseal]

I played through on Adept. Sometimes it was too easy and sometimes it was too hard as I and the enemy types levelled slightly differently.

I have a somewhat short fuse with dying. If I can't get through something on say 3-4 tries, it gets frustrating. Especially given the amount there is to do in world. No time for endless dying! I like to be able to dominate mostly but be challenged now and then to come up with new and sneaky ways of doing things to prevent dying.

 

[vierasniper]

I played through on Adept. Sometimes it was too easy and sometimes it was too hard as I and the enemy types levelled slightly differently.

I have a somewhat short fuse with dying. If I can't get through something on say 3-4 tries, it gets frustrating. Especially given the amount there is to do in world. No time for endless dying! I like to be able to dominate mostly but be challenged now and then to come up with new and sneaky ways of doing things to prevent dying.

3-4 times? lol. its called quick saving. press f5, after you've done a significant portion of the quest your on.

 

[fseal]

I save a LOT. up to about 1700 saves now. I always save after every little skirmish. On expert I'd be replaying skirmishes far too often for it to be fun. Adept was a pretty good middle ground, though at times id did get a little too easy as I leveled up faster than the enemies did in some cases.

There were even a couple places where I set it to easy to get by something I didn't have the health, potions or patience for. Like I said if I can;t get something down in 4 tries it wears thin. Though I never consoled my heath up to 9999 or anything like that like so many people do :/

 

[smarteyeball]

Like I said if I can;t get something down in 4 tries it wears thin.

Know the feeling. That's why I've a long list of unfinished games.

Though I never consoled my heath up to 9999 or anything like that like so many people do :/

So far the only time I've touched the console is to fix a quest glitch or remove stuck items.

Cheating on a quick 2nd shits and giggle run might be all-right, but not on a first run. It'd just make the game boring.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Found this mod on google, I did not make it, just using it, it is VERY different, and I know a bunch of people are gonna complain and say its destroys the game and doesn't fit and so on, but i uploaded pix , and the main reason i am using this is cause it looks awesome, its funny and i am bored with skyrim so this helps haha. here they are.

 

[M1GU31]

Like I said if I can;t get something down in 4 tries it wears thin.

Know the feeling. That's why I've a long list of unfinished games.

Though I never consoled my heath up to 9999 or anything like that like so many people do :/

So far the only time I've touched the console is to fix a quest glitch or remove stuck items.

Cheating on a quick 2nd shits and giggle run might be all-right, but not on a first run. It'd just make the game boring.

i just killed some dude then revived him then put kill in console for laughs

 

[Everlong]

Found this mod on google, I did not make it, just using it, it is VERY different, and I know a bunch of people are gonna complain and say its destroys the game and doesn't fit and so on, but i uploaded pix , and the main reason i am using this is cause it looks awesome, its funny and i am bored with skyrim so this helps haha. here they are.

Haha, what mod is that? Might try it myself.

 

[Alsisgevat]

You can get it on nexus skyrim, or search jedi skyrim on google, the fun part is that you need a very high deadric smith skill to craft them and you get various colors, and the same modder made jedi robes for males, so go to nexus forims and search for jedi. And i am glad i am note the only one thatlikes it haha

 

[smarteyeball]

Finally pulled my finger out and finished the main quest.

 

[panais]

Buy or not to buy a dog?

 

[WiFi Ed]

Buy or not to buy a dog?

I haven't bought a dog yet, but have used Meeko the orphaned dog a bit. He has a bad habit (like Lydia) of getting in between me and the target. This usually results in Meeko sprouting an arrow out of his head at best, or getting killed. Most depressing, because he's a nice doggie otherwise. Great at intercepting wolves and frost spiders when I'm jogging out in the open.

I've settled for leaving him outside any dungeons I'm exploring and using a conjured familiar if the need arises.

 

[smarteyeball]

Didn't know you could buy a dog :huh:

After lydia, I don't even like having NPC 'companions' even if they are part of a quest. All of them just get in the way